Yes, there are two Americas’ Virginia, they exist as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. One tolerant and broadminded, the other intolerant and narrow-minded!
Sincerely, thinkingblue, from the TOLERANT AND BROADMINDED USA
PS: Joe (You Lie) Wilson, et al reside in the other America!

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

It is hard to believe the blatant, out N' out criminal activities that went on during the Bush/Cheney years, under the eyes of the law and without consequences. Illegal wars, spying on the people without their knowledge, torture, UNCONSTITUTIONAL LOOPHOLES. (Read This) Are we really free? This doesn't sound like freedom to me. If it weren't for the freedom of the press that produce media iconoclasts like Jon Stewart, our so called freedom would be in name only. I'm to the point that I don't trust any politician. When I see one of them speaking on TV, I turn off the sound and believe me, you could not tell if Mr. or Ms. Politician was an "R" or a "D"... their mannerisms are so similar. Just a bunch of greedy individuals all worried about their own rice bowls. They'resupposed to represent us but they do anything but represent us. The only representing they do is for self interest. So again, if it weren't for people like Jon Stewart, Thom Hartmann, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and the like, we might as well be living in the closed society of Iran for all the truths we would be able to learn. thinkingblue

PS: Please watch The Jon Stewart Show clip below and read The New York Time Opinion Article and learn, learn, learn.

A Mark Twain Quote:"Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.""How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," 1870

A version of this article appeared in print on November 3, 2009, on page A28 of the New York edition.Published: November 2, 2009

Among the many dubious provisions in the 2005 energy bill wasone dubbed the Halliburton loophole, which was inserted atthe behest of — you guessed it — then-VicePresident Dick Cheney, a former chief executive of Halliburton.

It stripped the Environmental Protection Agency of itsauthority to regulate a drilling process called hydraulicfracturing. Invented by Halliburton in the 1940s, it involvesinjecting a mixture of water, sand and chemicals, some ofthem toxic, into underground rock formations to blast themopen and release natural gas.

Hydraulic fracturing has been implicated in a growing numberof water pollution cases across the country. It has becomeespecially controversial in New York, where regulators areeager to clear the way for drilling in the New York Citywatershed, potentially imperiling the city’s watersupply. Thankfully, the main company involved has now decidednot to go ahead.

The safety of the nation’s water supply should not haveto rely on luck or the public relations talents of the oiland gas industry. Thanks in part to two New Yorkers —Representative Maurice Hinchey and Senator Charles Schumer— Congress last week approved a bill that asks theE.P.A. to conduct a new study on the risks of hydraulicfracturing. An agency study in 2004 whitewashed the industryand was dismissed by experts as superficial and politicallymotivated. This time Congress is demanding “atransparent, peer-reviewed process.”

An even more important bill is waiting in the wings.Cumbersomely named the Fracturing Responsibility andAwareness of Chemicals Act, it would close the loophole andrestore the E.P.A.’s rightful authority to regulatehydraulic fracturing. It would also require the oil and gasindustry to disclose the chemicals they use.

The industry argues that the chemicals are proprietarysecrets and that disclosing them would hurt theircompetitiveness. It also argues that the process is basicallysafe and that regulating it would deter domestic production.But if hydraulic fracturing is as safe as the industry saysit is, why should it fear regulation?

Please sign this very important petition "demand question time" (of ourpolitical leaders) HERE..We really need more dialog from those at the top... TheRepublicans have got to be made to realize they can't hide behind"NO" any longer! thinkingblue

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Yes, there are two Americas’ Virginia, they exist as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. One tolerant and
free-thinking, the other intolerant and close-minded!
Sincerely, thinkingblue, from the TOLERANT AND FREE-THINKING USA
PS: Joe (You Lie) Wilson, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh et al reside in the intolerant America!